"I perceive value, I confer value, I create value, I even create — or guarantee — existence. Hence, my compulsion to make “lists.” The things (Beethoven’s music, movies, business firms) won’t exist unless I signify my interest in them by at least noting down their names.” -Susan Sontag

(Notable Omissions: The Girl on the Train, Denial, Snowden)Best Screenplay - Original
Manchester by the SeaThe Lobster
20th Century Women
Hell or High Water
Everybody Wants Some!!
A Bigger Splash
Louder than Bombs

Best Animated ShortDeer FlowerManoman (full video! 10m)Borrowed TimePear Cider and Cigarettes (I KNEW the animator was the same guy who did Metallica's Lemmy video! Here; check out the video for Murder One. It's a great one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mkq6GFLIsk. (I thought it might have also been the same person who did Queens of the Stone Age's videos, including If I had a Tail, but that was the artist Boneface and directed by Liam Brazier.))PiperMr. Madila (2015 new to me; full video! 8m)Best Live Action ShortThunder Road (full video! 13m)Project X (full video! 10m)Dear Mr Shakespeare(full video! 5m) I love this. I love it so much.Liam and Lenka (2014 - new to me; full video! 18m)Peace in the Valley (full video! 15m)The Anthem (2006 - new to me; full video! 5m)Worldly Desires (2005 - new to me; full video! 40m (I recommend watching the first 5 min at least)Vapour (2015 - new to me. Can you tell I watched a whole program of Apichatpong Weerasethakul shorts?)TrackIn Attla's TracksBest SoundArrival
Jackie
Green Room
Hacksaw Ridge (that said, yaaaay for Kevin O'Connell!)
Rogue One
Moana
Deadpool

Best Debut Film
The FitsSwiss Army Man
Lion
Kubo and the Two Strings
Deadpool
10 Cloverfield Lane

(Notable Omissions: Edge of Seventeen, Southside with You, Kicks, Krisha, Legend of Barney Thompson)Film I didn't get to that I am most looking forward to:Sunset Song
American Honey
Always Shine
Tanna
Cameraperson
Tickled
London Road
Disorder
Edge of Seventeen
April and the Extraordinary World

Best Quote
"I didn't choose the skuxx life, the skuxx life chose me." - Hunt for the Wilderpeople
"What don't you want?" - Hell or High Water
"We came for a good time, not for a long time" - Everybody Wants Some!!
"Americans really have shown themselves to be a nation of ingrates, only by having children can we begin to understand such dynamic." - Love & Friendship"I had a feeling that the great word 'respectable' would some day divide us." - Love & Friendship
"That's right! You're about to be killed by a zamboni! ... Tell me where your fucking boss is or you're going to die! In five minutes!" - Deadpool
"Douche: Okay, so...
Queso: Did someone say 'Queso'?
Douche: That's a fucking stretch and you know it, Queso!" - Sausage Party
"Lobsters live for over one hundred years, are blue-blooded like aristocrats, and stay fertile all their lives. I also like the sea very much." - The Lobster
"There were a lot of explosions for two people blending in." - Rogue One